Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carolina and young athletic Governor of Maine. William Tudor Gardiner of Gardiner, Me., aged 37, was a Harvard tackle 15 years ago. During the War he spent 22 months in the Army, advanced from private to first lieutenant. He entered the State House of Representatives in 1921, became its speaker. His chief pastime: hunting bear, moose, deer in his Maine woods...
...furbelows, top hats, canes and other vanities that might strike a bourgeois note in the communist paradise," the 99 tourists attended in sack suits, travelling dresses. When the star-spangled strains had subsided, Comrade Poliayukov, president of the Russian-American Trading Corporation, rose beaming at the head of the speaker's table and boomed: "Welcome to Soviet Russia. While you are here you are invited to partake of as much vodka and caviar as you like...
...Philadelphia "Athletics" are so far ahead of the New York "Yankees" that they appear almost certain winners. Last year Connie Mack (Cornelius Mc-Gillicuddy) 66-year-old manager of the Athletics, just missed winning the pennant, probably lost it by starting the season with oldsters Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins in his lineup.† About the middle of the season, Manager Mack put in youngsters, made up much lost ground. This year he has had his youngsters-notably Jimmy Foxx, Gordon Cochrane, Al Simmons-in action all year, and with superlative pitching from Pitchers Grove and Walberg...
...Cobb has since retired. Speaker is player-manager of the Newark (Minor League) Club. Collins is with the Athletics as coach, occasional pinch-hitter...
...evening after Speaker Fitzroy was installed on his Chair, "Beefeaters" (Yeomen of the Guard) from the Tower of London marched through the cellars of Parliament. Carrying halberds and horn lanterns they poked in crannies, peered in corners. The purpose of this search was to look for Guy Fawkes, a gentleman who, one Nov. 4, tried to blow up Parliament, but who, to the comfort of present-day "Beefeaters," has been dead since...